Raised in Canada, Phyllis Green moved to California to pursue graduate studies in art. She was awarded an M.F.A. from U.C.L.A. in 1981, and began her professional art career in Los Angeles. She is the recipient of individual artist's fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She was among the first group of artists to be awarded a prestigious C.O.L.A. grant by the City of Los Angeles in 1996. Her work as a sculptor and animator has been exhibited extensively in exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. It was included in "From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in 20th Century Art", "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity", both at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and in 2006, in “Fiction@Love” at MOCA, Shanghai. She has lectured in colleges and universities around the world, and is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Art Departments of Loyola Marymount University, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. Phyllis Green produced and hosted a radio show on the visual arts, “LOOK/ hear” on KXLU, Los Angeles, from 1996-1998. She was appointed to the Santa Monica Arts Commission in 2000, and elected Chair in 2004.